New Zealand suspends new copyright law restrictions…

23Feb09

Cory Doctorow on boingboing sez: “Street demonstrations, netwide campaigns, unfavorable press attention and sustained lobbying have moved the New Zealand government to temporarily suspend its new copyright law, which would have required ISPs to terminate their customers’ net access on the basis of three unsubstantiated accusations of infringement. It remains to be seen whether the law is truly dead, but this is an amazing development” – Indeed!